A Cape sign now suitable for posting at the state line

A victory for civil rights?

Martin Luther King wrote from the Birmingham Jail:

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

This from Jeff Jacoby:

Those of us who think this week's revolution is a terrible mistake need to do a much better job of explaining that the core question is not "Why shouldn't any couple in love be able to marry?" but something more essential: "What is marriage for?" We need to convey that the fundamental purpose of marriage is to unite men and women so that any children they may create or adopt will have a mom and a dad.

Marriage expresses a public judgment that every child deserves a mom and a dad. Same-sex marriage, by contrast, says that the sexual and emotional desires of adults count for more than the needs of children. Which message do we want the next generation to receive?

Colleen Carroll Campbell writes: Perhaps the children of America should flock to our courthouse doors and demand that we start respecting their rights.

Time for another Tea Party, suggests Big Trunk, musing on the "love that won't shut up now."

All of this should make a spiffy backdrop for this summer's coronation of John Kerry in Boston. If George Bush the Elder had an easy time using Boston Harbor against Dukakis in '88, how's Massachusetts going to look on the national stage this time around?